Do Labor Markets Limit the Inclusiveness of Growth in the Dominican Republic?

The strong economic growth enjoyed by the Dominican Republic following its 2003 domestic crisis was not matched by similarly substantial progress in poverty reduction. While labor productivity grew by an estimated 39 percent between 2000 and 2013,...

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Main Author:	World Bank
Format:	Report
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2017
Subjects:	LABOR MARKET INCLUSIVE GROWTH POVERTY POVERTY REDUCTION WAGES JOB CREATION LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/731041501702225818/Do-labor-markets-limit-the-inclusiveness-of-growth-in-the-Dominican-Republic http://hdl.handle.net/10986/27681

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spelling	okr-10986-276812021-05-25T09:02:12Z Do Labor Markets Limit the Inclusiveness of Growth in the Dominican Republic? World Bank LABOR MARKET INCLUSIVE GROWTH POVERTY POVERTY REDUCTION WAGES JOB CREATION LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION The strong economic growth enjoyed by the Dominican Republic following its 2003 domestic crisis was not matched by similarly substantial progress in poverty reduction. While labor productivity grew by an estimated 39 percent between 2000 and 2013, real wages fell with the crisis in 2003/04, and, in 2013, remained below their pre-crisis level. This report presents an assessment of factors related to the functioning of the labor markets that constrained more inclusive growth in the Dominican Republic. It explores several hypotheses related to labor supply factors, job creation, and global trends in returns to labor, as well as issues with statistical measurements that contribute to explain the weak relationship observed between growth and poverty reduction. The analysis finds that growth appears to have been driven by productivity increases rather than by increases in labor inputs. At the same time, low-skilled workers became increasingly concentrated in low-quality jobs and in sectors that saw low productivity growth, a trend enhanced by the loss of manufacturing jobs since 2000. Low rates of labor force participation, particularly among the poor, further limited the ability of households to benefit from growth. 2017-08-08T21:43:32Z 2017-08-08T21:43:32Z 2017-08-01 Report http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/731041501702225818/Do-labor-markets-limit-the-inclusiveness-of-growth-in-the-Dominican-Republic http://hdl.handle.net/10986/27681 English en_US CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Economic & Sector Work :: Other Poverty Study Economic & Sector Work Latin America & Caribbean Dominican Republic
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description	The strong economic growth enjoyed by the Dominican Republic following its 2003 domestic crisis was not matched by similarly substantial progress in poverty reduction. While labor productivity grew by an estimated 39 percent between 2000 and 2013, real wages fell with the crisis in 2003/04, and, in 2013, remained below their pre-crisis level. This report presents an assessment of factors related to the functioning of the labor markets that constrained more inclusive growth in the Dominican Republic. It explores several hypotheses related to labor supply factors, job creation, and global trends in returns to labor, as well as issues with statistical measurements that contribute to explain the weak relationship observed between growth and poverty reduction. The analysis finds that growth appears to have been driven by productivity increases rather than by increases in labor inputs. At the same time, low-skilled workers became increasingly concentrated in low-quality jobs and in sectors that saw low productivity growth, a trend enhanced by the loss of manufacturing jobs since 2000. Low rates of labor force participation, particularly among the poor, further limited the ability of households to benefit from growth.
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title	Do Labor Markets Limit the Inclusiveness of Growth in the Dominican Republic?
title_short	Do Labor Markets Limit the Inclusiveness of Growth in the Dominican Republic?
title_full	Do Labor Markets Limit the Inclusiveness of Growth in the Dominican Republic?
title_fullStr	Do Labor Markets Limit the Inclusiveness of Growth in the Dominican Republic?
title_full_unstemmed	Do Labor Markets Limit the Inclusiveness of Growth in the Dominican Republic?
title_sort	do labor markets limit the inclusiveness of growth in the dominican republic?
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publishDate	2017
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/731041501702225818/Do-labor-markets-limit-the-inclusiveness-of-growth-in-the-Dominican-Republic http://hdl.handle.net/10986/27681
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Do Labor Markets Limit the Inclusiveness of Growth in the Dominican Republic?

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